SPEAKERS OF MONGOLIA AND TURKEY ABOUT VISIT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Chairman of the State Great Khural Mr Z.Enkhbold and his Turkish counterpart Mr Cemil Cicek Tuesday called a press conference. Mr Enkhbold noted that the official visit of Turkey’s Top Legislator to Mongolia is running successfully, and underlined that this visit has been paid in frames of the 45th anniversary of the Mongolia-Turkey diplomatic relations. He said the countries’ parliaments signed a cooperation protocol and shared views on the bilateral relations and cooperation including the inter-parliamentary ties. Mongolia and Turkey have the ancient ties and have many similarities in terms of cultural and traditional areas, Mr Enkhbold added. This visit has an importance in enhancing the Mongolia-Turkey friendly relations and cooperation in accordance with the Mongolia’s "Third Neighbor" policy, reflected in Mongolia’s foreign policy concept, he went on. He said the goals of this visit are to deepen the bilateral traditional friendly relations and cooperation, to keep a frequency of high-level mutual visits and talks, to expand the inter-parliamentary ties, and to increase their outcomes. Mongolia wants to exploit investments from Turkey for construction of apartments, developing infrastructure, energy and tourism sectors, he added. In turn, Mr Cicek noted his visit is coincided with the 45th anniversary of the diplomatic relations and underlined that Mongolian and Turkish people have ancient ties. There are no political conflicts between Mongolia and Turkey, which makes much easier to lay a basis for expanding the relations and cooperation in all spheres, Mr Cicek said. His country is ready to share its experiences with Mongolia. The two countries have a great opportunity to cooperate in education, redeveloping ger (national dwelling) areas and great constructions, he said